CIA boss Goss is cooked; Tied to contractor's poker parties

Daily News ^ | May 6 06 | Daily News

[churchillbuff]

CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.

[churchillbuff]

When did politicians NOT play poker?

[Churchillspirit]

Well this is a new slant on things.

Just in time for the Sunday talk shows.

[ncountylee]

Goss and Foggo share a fondness for poker and expensive cigars,

Clinton style cigars?

[Always Right]

Since when did prostitutes lower themselves to hanging out with politicians?

[newkidonblock]

So Daily News is going to lead a story which has no evidence to prove Goss broke the law.

Typical MSM bias and no one should by the Daily News.

[Always Right]

So much for the theory the Goss is running for the Senate, I suppose.

[churchillbuff]

Actually, the article doesn't have anything to back up the headline. Only uninformed speculation.

[Frank_2001]

Problem is, they play with our money!;)

[litehaus]

Share same address: 123 Lower Gutter Lane......

[JustaDumbBlonde]

If what they are reporting is actually true, it is appropriate that he resigned. I am not opposed to poker, the devil is in the other details.

[caryatid]

I wondered when I would see someone post something about this. While I believe that this should still be considered rumour until proven otherwise, there has been much talk about Porter Goss being involved in this brewing scandal.

What puzzles me is that Porter Goss seemed genuinely liked when he took over at CIA, and did not seem to have any "baggage".

My husband and I talked about this yesterday ... and he expressed [for the thousandth time] puzzlement about why any man with wealth, social, business, and/or political prominence, and/or aspirations, would fall for what used to be described as a "honey trap". [possibly obsolete terminology].

Why don't these men comprehend that they have to be twice as clean as anyone else? And, this applies to poker games with the wrong crowd as well as prostitutes ...

[jazusamo]

Correct, they didn't even mention an unnamed source.

[llevrok]

My own theory is Bush fired Goss to steer the news away from the patches kennedy incident (\sarc)

[caryatid]

Why don't these men comprehend that they have to be twice as clean as anyone else?

And, four times as clean if they are a Republican ...

[Crawdad]

It's not difficult to be faithful to your mate.

Democrat or Republican--if a man can't keep his wee-wee in his pants unless he's by himself or with his wife, he deserves all the trouble he gets.

[Cap Huff]

If the reason was a brewing scandal, and that was clear to the White House, the resignation would most likely have been acknowledged and accepted with a press statement and not a photo op with the president.

[Logical me]

Why don't these men comprehend that they have to be twice as clean as anyone else?

Only because that is the way the game is played. Every person should have a right to his personal life and should be separate from his job. If someone has violated the law, then it should be up to the law to take over. Not the MSM. Personal destruction is now the American way. Heaven help us, we are on a road to total destruction of anything that could be good for America. Many great Americans have so called skeletons in their closet, should we eliminate what they have to offer just because some of us disagree with what they do as long as it is not against the law?

[Suzy Quzy]

Get a GRIP!!

[paul51]

Many great Americans have so called skeletons in their closet

Skeletons in the closet are easier to overlook than current behavior

[elli1]

When did politicians NOT play poker?

Don't think poker is the problem. Goss appointed Foggo to the No. 3 slot & it's looking like Foggo is tied to Cunningham--and that IS a problem.